JSTOR is an excellent database for anthropology research. It is available from the UMUC Library home page: Articles and More: Library Databases under J for JSTOR.
You can also locate it via the library databases listed in the Guide to Sociology and Anthropology Resources.
JSTOR provides full-text access to back issues of journals. Depending on the specific journal title, coverage starts from the early 1900s. Coverage extends up to 3-5 years prior to the current year. Subjects covered of interest to this class include American Indian studies, anthropology, archeology, geography, history, population studies, and sociology.
This is the homepage of the JSTOR database:
In searching JSTOR you can use basic or advanced searching. To conduct an advanced search in JSTOR, simply click on the Advanced Search button from the Basic Search screen:
For example, if you wish to conduct a search on the settlement of Native Americans in the New World in the Advanced Search screen, your search might look like this:
Putting your search terms in quotation marks causes the database to search the terms as a phrase. You will notice that you can also limit the search so that only articles will be retrieved by checking the box next to Article.
For further limiting, you can choose particular journal discipline areas in selected languages. The number to the right of the discipline area tells you how many journals are included in JSTOR for that particular discipline area. For example, you might select Anthropology journals in English:
This particular search retrieved 134 results :
Here is an example of one of the citations retrieved by this search:
This contains all the information needed to cite the article:
You can then click on the link to retrieve the full-text of the article to determine if this article is indeed of value to your research:
If you wish to print or download the article, you will find the button to click for either of these functions at the top of the article. Note also that JSTOR indicates where your search terms appear in the article.
As in any search you will need to experiment with terminology and limiting choices to get the best results. Reviewing the section on Searching Tips and Techniques in this conference can aid in this process.
Please ask if you have any questions about searching JSTOR or using other library resources!